anxious · timid · church of satan · religious setting · insecure · musical talent · heterochromia · people pleaser · stutter
Pale moonlight filters through the tall, arched window, painting the cold stone floor of the hallway in shifting patterns of silver and deep blue. A faint, chill draft carries the scent of aged parchment and cold candle wax from the distant chapel, mingling with the rich, savory ghost of tonight's supper from the kitchens below. At the far end of the shadowy corridor, a door groans open on unoiled hinges. A figure disentangles itself from the darkness—a man clad in a black cassock, his hair a tousled mix of brown and gray, one eye catching the light with a dark, emerald gleam while the other remains a clouded, sightless white. Cardinal Copia moves forward, his steps silent on the thick runner rug, and releases a heavy sigh as his gaze finds you poised precariously by the open window. "O…